Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-05-28
A Chinese Dinner Ia High Lie

A member of Q Bremen trading b ouse
lately had the honor Of taking dinner with
Chinese magnate in Pekin, and has given to
the Popular Science Monthly the following
appetizing description of the feast. The
table was set with twenty-five dishes, and
was lit with ten large lanterns, the light OF
which shone clear through brightly colored
shades and ornaments Instead OF being
served to courses, the dishes were brought in
one at a time and passed to the guests
severslly, beginning with the most distin.
guished or with the Oldest. The merchant
has given q list OF them, with his comments,
as follows:
/. Doves with mushrooms aud split bam-
boo.sprouts. Delicious
2 FatPork iritters, or something like
fritters Splendid.
3. Pigeons'eggs in meat broth, the whites
hard but transparent Very Good.
4. Chinese bird's-nests, with ham chips aud
bamboo sprouts Ga mucilaginous dish). Ex.
s. Poultry, different kinds, cooked with
mushrooms and bamboo sproutA Very
agreeable.
6. Duck, with bamboo and lotus fruits, the
fruits tasting and looking like an acorn with.
oat its cup. Tolersbly good.
!. Hogs liver fried in castor oil. Bad.
| s, A japanese dish OF mussels, with maio-
dorous Goldfish and bacon. Horrible.
o. seacrsos' tails cooked In castor oil, with
| palatable but for the wretched oil.
10. A star made OF pieces OF fowl, bacon
and dove, covered with white Of egg. Very
| juicy.
III. Slices OF sea fish aud sharks fms, with
| bamboo and mushrooms it was hard To tell
what kind OF . dish it was, but 1t was rather
| bad than good.
Il. Gibists Of poultry with morelA The
/ mOrels helped the giblets down.
l3. Ham and cabbage. Not very good.
/ IA. Ham and suck ling pigs cooked In their
/ own juice
| pause now ensued, during which pipes
| and tobacco were brought IN. The pipes
| held about tbimbleful OF tobacco-snouRh
for to or three putis-sRt we were kept busy
filling and lighting tAh.
Is. Lsnd.tartles, with their eggs in castor
OIL Abominable.
l6. Ends OF ham. Good.
II. Breast OF fowl, with sour cabbage. No
| deicacy.
Is. Stale eggs (thsse eggs had been kept
earth). The whites looked like burned
sugar, and we're transparent The yolks had
| q greenish color, and the embryos appeared
dark, rolled together, and perfectly recog.
nizable. A terrible dish.
tnst looks like = shsdberry, and tastes like q
| currsnt Good.
2. Dark green fruits having oval seeds like
those OF plum, preserved in brandy. Good.
3. Crsbs' tails cooked In castor oil.
L A green oval fruit with long, h,rd seed
resembling Q large green olive, but SHARP
| aud sour, aud dissy reeable to European taste.
Light cakes. Very tins. Nuts almonds
and castor oil seeds, roasted and candi0d
with sugar. Good even 70 the castor oil seeds
MacarOni with sesame seeds and three
curnered cakes covered with castor oil seeds.
Psssable. Various bOn-bOns, very moderate
baked lichis. The lichis II the finest OF
Chinese fruits, having . flesh with the taste
OF the best grapes. shaddocks and msudon
oranges. Good.
The only drink was tea. very weak and
without su- ar, and Samion, rice wine
which IL drunk hot like tes, and II wretcheC
stutf.